Bubble burster bot. Identify cliques with few "outside" connections, that talk about politics on a social network. Start engaging both groups with content "acceptable" to both of them. Continue until direct connections are formed and move on. "Content" can be trivial - like finding a link posted by one person and responding "similar to this, right? <link to other person's post including related link>"
Potential risk: choosing bad content could cause more conflicts than new connections.
Why not done: just came up with it, also unlikely to be profitable unless you get a research grant for it.
Trigger: this idea is similar, right? https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/796845589254275072